POLI211

A history of Russia from the 19th century through the Soviet period and into the post 1991 Russian Federation. The course will examine in historical and political perspective the reforms of Alexander II, the Russian revolutionary movement of the 19th century, the age of Nicholas and Alexandra, Lenin and the rise of Bolshevism, Stalin's dictatorship, Khrushchev's reforms, Brezhnev's consolidation of Societ society, Gorbachev's perestroika, and Post-Communist Russia of Yeltsin, Putin and Medvedev.